David Dobkin Quotes
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I'm a political conservative.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
